Baling-press.



No. 783,026. PATENTED FEB. 21, 1905. W. 0. CUMMING.

BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED 00122, 1903.

No. 783,026. PATENTED FEB. 21, 19o5.

W. 0. GUMMING.

BALING PRESS.

APPLIOATION FILED 00122, 1903.

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PATENT ()FFICE.

BALlNG-PRESS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,026, dated February 21, 1905. Application filed October 22,1903. Serial No. 177,994.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LWVILLIAM O. (JUMMING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cordele, in the county of Dooly and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Baling-Presss, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in baling-presses; and the object is to provide a novel means of applying power to the plunger; and with this object in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan View showing one position of the parts. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the parts immediately after the release of the plunger. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing an intermediate position. Fig. 4 is a modification, being a detail perspective view of the plunger-actuating arm; and Fig, 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing the end of the plunger.

A represents the body of the baling-press, B the platform, and C the usual plunger. The plunger has the usual plunger-rod 1 extending rearward therefrom, and a spring 2 tends to normally withdraw it from the body of the baling-press. At its free end, the plungerrod 1 is provided with a socket 8, one side of which is extended to form a guard 4, and this socket may be in the form of a metal tipsay of sheet metalif desired, as is illustrated in the drawings, and its function will presently be described. At a suitable distance from this socket an antifriction-roller 5 is mounted on the rod, the purpose of which roller will also be explained hereinafter.

A tongue orsweep 6 is supported upon a bolt 7 at one end of the platform B through the medium of the plunger-actuating arms, which will now be described. These arms are designated by the numerals 8 and 9, and the lower arm 8 rests approximately in the normal plane in which the plunger-rod 1 lies, whereas the upper arm 9, extending at right angles thereto, lies approximately in the plane of the antifriction-roller 5, which its rounded cam ends 10 10 are adapted to engage, thereby forcing the plunger-rod and plunger forward a certain distance into the body portion of the press with the forward sweep of the tongue or sweep 6 in making its revolutions.

The ends of the lower arm 8 are rounded to enter the socket 3 when the latter shall have reached a point to receive one of them,which point is attained by the cam action of the ends of the arm 9'on the antifriction-roller 5, this action repeating itself twice for each complete revolution of the tongue or sweep.

The lateral vibrations of the tongue or sweep are limited and confined between the two antifriction-rollers 11 and 12 on the platform.

As a slight modification,in Fig. 4 I have illustrated a construction in which antifriction-rollers are located at the ends of arm 8, they being adapted to enter the socket 3 and by permitting the bearing to turn in them thus doing away with friction at that point. Sometimes it may be advisable to use this form instead ofthe other.

In operation, power is applied to the outer end of the tongue or sweep by hitching a draft animal or animals thereto or in any other way, as is customary. The tongue or sweep being thus rotated, the spring 2 tends to throw the plunger backward out of the press, and in so doing the antifriction-roller 5 is caught by the upper arm 9. As the tongue or sweep turns or revolves, the plunger rod is forced inwardly and laterally by the cam action of the end 10 of the arm on the roller 5, and just before the extreme end reaches the roller, the end of arm 8 enters the socket 3, thereby carrying the plunger-rod forward where the end '10 of arm 9 has left it, but with a continuous uninterrupted motion. As the arm 8 is shorter, it gives a correspondingly greater leverage when the greatest compression is required that is to say, toward the end of the throat of the plunger. At the same time by means of the compound leverage of the two arms 8 and 9 a greater length of stroke is attained than could otherwise be obtained. Thus in asimple way, a powerful compression is provided with each inward stroke of the plunger and twice during the revolution of the sweep. The friction between the body of the press and the plunger is lessened by means of the antifrietion-rollers 13 13, journaled in the plunger and engaging the sides of the body portion of the press.

It is evident that other slight changes might be resorted to in addition to what has been deplunger, operating-arms suitably pivoted at one end of the baling-press, the arms comprising a plurality of horizontal members extending transversely to each other, and located in different horizontal and parallel planes the members in one horizontal plane provided with cam-faces adapted to. engage and wipe the antifrietion-abutment preliminary to the engagement of the members in the remaining horizontal plane with the end of the plunger.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

W. o. CUMMING. itnesses:

R. D. B. TAYLOR, JAMns HAYDEN DUMAS. 

